Daily Links Sep 10

This is not Esau’s (I started out a Methodist, you see, but I got better) 400 men (and I expect most will be men) but Eeyore’s. The donkey says ‘thanks for noticin’ me’ – I don’t think we should even do that with these 400 troglodytes, marketers, politicians etc.

A majority of Australians believe climate change is driving more droughts and floods, and that increasing electricity prices are the result of “excessive profit margins” among private energy companies.

Some families have returned to see their homes in fire-ravaged Queensland, but the “nightmare” bushfire crisis is far from over with several homes reportedly lost in a new emergency on the Sunshine Coast.

Macquarie Group chief executive Shemara Wikramanayake wants to put Macquarie’s $116 billion infrastructure funds at the forefront of the next wave of climate change-related investment called “climate adaptation”.

Stark divisions have been exposed within the electricity industry, investors and politicians about the urgency and need for an overhaul of electricity market rules to extend the life of coal power plants.

This report provides a high-level retrospective analysis of energy affordability in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and Tasmania, covering the past three years, with a focus on energy affordability for low income households.

The owners of Australia’s coal generators might have gotten a little excited over the weekend if they took a headline in Murdoch’s The Australian newspaper at its word:“Power pricing overhaul ‘should reward coal’.”

Fed-up Victorian farmers are demanding greater transparency on water trading as the cost for the precious commodity skyrockets, raising fears of farmers being forced off the land and rural communities plunged into crisis as summer looms.

NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro and NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean today announced the next step to address the number of brumbies in Kosciuszko National Park, with the appointment of the Kosciuszko Wild Horse Community Advisory Panel.

Anger over the Inner West Council’s controversial new tree-clearing policy – which gives private landholders the right to remove the vast majority of trees in the area – has spread beyond environmental campaigners to the state Coalition government.

Indigenous landowners believe the discovery of significant artefacts near some dams — delaying floodwaters from reaching the Darling River — should not stand in the way of improving flows; citrus farmer watches life’s work die (pictured); and, plan to rescue fish ahead of summer.

Acting Queensland Premier Jackie Trad says the Gold Coast hinterland fire that swept through the area over the weekend included areas of rainforest — a highly unusual event, but one that experts say is occurring more frequently in recent times.

A tiny rainbow-hued lizard which all but disappeared from the wild 10 years ago has been given the run of a brand new home, its very own tropical island off the WA coast, to bring its population back from the brink.